Last Tuesday the Bad Boys of Rock Tour rolled into Baton Rouge. People were fired up to see Papa Roach, Hinder, Buckcherry and Revelation Theory. Before the show, I got to talk to Papa Roach lead singer Jacoby Shaddix. I have to admit that Shaddix knows how things work. Right off the bat, he told me that he remembered performing at X-Fest and that the show that night was going to be even wilder than their previous performance. I thought that was great for two reasons. The first, because with all the shows he does, he remembers X-Fest. Second, I liked his energy and how he was prepared to put it out there for everyone. Apparently, he brought the heat later that night because the calls came rolling in proclaiming that Papa Roach stole the show.
This weekend was an interesting one. On Saturday, I had to work during the LSU game but afterwards I ate dinner and had some drinks. I do not know what it is but LSU drives people crazy. They were all over the road, loud as hell and going crazy. Then I remembered we are one of the top tailgating schools and everything made sense.
Then Sunday, The Fish and I headed to New Orleans to catch Interpol at the House of Blues. I will say this, Interpol has some fanatical fans. I saw guys playing air guitar, others buying $45 track jackets from the merch table and a lot of people singing along with every song, new and old.
It was a good show and a good day, the only drawback is when we stopped at a Popeye’s in Gonzales on the way there and it may have been the worst eating experience ever. It took them 10 minutes to take our order. We asked for honey, then they told us that they were out of honey mustard, then gave us three packets of honey mustard. After that, we realized they messed up our order and we were missing a biscuit, so we told them and asked for ketchup and napkins. Needless to day they gave us about 100 packets of ketchup and enough napkins to soak up the water in a small lake. Five minutes down the road we realized that they had forgot our biscuit and that they had not given us any eating utensils, so The Fish ate his mashed potatoes with the lid of the mashed potato container. That Popeye’s totally blew.
